SAFETY HARBOR, Fla. — For the second time in a week, the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office made an arrest for felony adoption fraud.

In this case, investigators say Angelica Lopez, 30, had agreed to an adoption with Gregory and Amaia Garbee of Safety Harbor through an attorney's office.

"You can't help but plan. You know, we had parties with friends over where they were bringing us diapers, people couldn't stop giving us gifts. It was a very exciting time, very exciting and there was no doubt in our mind that baby was going to be ours," said Gregory Garbee.

Lopez was in jail when she signed the pre-birth agreement with the Garbees. But when she got out, the couple said they called and texted with her regularly, went to lunch and accompanied her to ultrasounds.

They also gave her money for various expenses.

According to the Sheriff's Office, Lopez gave birth in early April but continued telling the Garbees she was still pregnant. They, in turn, continued giving her money.

In total, the couple gave Lopez three checks totaling $1,100, according to investigators.

Finally, the couple were notified the adoption had fallen through.

"It was complete and utter devastation, that's the best way I can describe it," Garbee told us. "It was beyond a gut punch. The devastation was too much. We couldn't face family, face the questions. It was the toughest time in our lives, without question," said Garbee.

The Garbees were able to move forward with another adoption, and now have a 5-week-old baby, Sebastain.

"We couldn't be happier. He's the greatest blessing to come from this, without question," Garbee said.

Lopez, meanwhile, was arrested, following an investigation by Pinellas County Sheriff's Office Child Protection investigators into her child. When detectives interviewed Lopez, she admitted to receiving the money after the birth of the child and rescinding the adoption agreement, but not notifying the Garbees or their attorney's office, who disbursed the money to her.

Lopez was charged with felony adoption deception. She bonded out of jail late Friday.

Her baby has been placed with a caregiver by Child Protection Investigators.

On Wednesday, another Pinellas woman, Ceara Stowe, was arrested and charged with scamming money out of a Nebraska couple set to adopt her twins once they were born. The couple did not learn they had been defrauded until they showed up at the hospital and learned the twins had been born days earlier and Stowe had decided to keep them.